Many strategic challenges impeding the success of primary health care are rooted in weak strategic inputs, including intersectoral collaboration. Some encouraging evidence from programmes, projects, and studies suggests that intersectoral collaboration is feasible and useful. The strategy has the potential to fast-track the attainment of Millenium Development Goals. However, the strategy is not...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: one of the major steps for planning and making polices in iranian health and health service sector is to gain information on the condition of such services in each province. thus, the present study intended to determine the degree of development and ranking of provinces at this sector. it can identify the undev...

BACKGROUND Health sector and programme performance assessments provide a rich source of contextual data directly linked to implementation of programmes and can inform health policy dialogue, planning and resource allocation. In seeking to maximise this opportunity, there are challenges to overcome. A meeting convened by the World Health Organization African Region discussed the strengths, weakn...

IN 2012, PERHAPS THE MOST WIDELY SCRUTINIZED SECtor of the economy in North America will be the health care industry. Politicians, policy analysts, academics, and the public share concerns about the state of health care in both the United States and Canada. However, each of these constituencies has a different perspective. Most sectors of the economy are characterized by a supply side that focu...

dental surgeons working in public sector have an important role to play in school dental health pro-gram to reinstitute the oral and dental health of growing population of india. even though the oral health policy was drafted in india in 1995, it was not implemented till this date (1). it is im-portant to enhance the knowledge about good oral health in teachers and parents by caring out worksho...

This descriptive research seeks to identify and present the situation of Peruvian health system in 2021, as well propose schedule pending for sector, proposing contrast evolution spending with previous periods, comparatively other countries Latin American European region. The problem human resources sector is analyzed, finally, infrastructure gap first level care identified. It concluded that n...

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Nevertheless, we are unaware of any similar research on the impacts of retiree health insurance per se. Accordingly, the present paper utilizes a un...

précis this debate article highlights the challenges of health situation in iran and some influencing or relevant factors such as health sector, welfare system and social protection, social exclusion and civil society from the viewpoint of an international partner. some advanced experiences in iranian health system and the manner of system for international cooperation have also been discussed.

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

BACKGROUND The 58th World Health Assembly called for all health systems to move towards universal coverage where everyone has access to key promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health interventions at an affordable cost. Universal coverage involves ensuring that health care benefits are distributed on the basis of need for care and not on ability to pay. The distribution of health...